The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 565] 
                                  
                                  This prest/ at þis cursed chanouns biddyng
                                
                                  Vppon þe fuyr anoon sette þis þing
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                                  And blew þe fuyr and busied him ful fast/
                                
                                  And þis chanoun in to þe croslet cast
                                
                                  A pouder noot I wher-of þat it was
                                
                                  I-maad ouþer of chalk ouþer of glas
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                                  Or som what elles was nouȝt worþ a flye
                                
                                  To blynde wiþ þis prest and bad him hye
                                
                                  These coles for to couchen al aboue;
                                
                                  The croislet/. for in tokenyng I þe loue
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                                  Quod þis chanoun þin oughne handes tuo
                                
                                  Schal wirche al þing which þat schal be do
                                
                                  Graunt mercy quod þe prest and was ful glad
                                
                                  And couchede coles as þe chanoun bad
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                                  And whil he besy was. þis feendly wrecche
                                
                                  This false chanoun þe foule feend him fecche
                                
                                  Out of his bosom took a bechen cole
                                
                                  In which ful subtilly was maad an hole /
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                                  And þer-In put was of siluer lymayle /
                                
                                  And vnce and stopped was wiþoute fayle
                                
                                  This hole with wex to kepe þe lymail In /
                                
                                  And vnderstondith þat þis false gyn
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                                  was not maad þer but it was maad bifore
                                
                                  And oþer þinges I schal telle more /
                                
                                  Her afterward which þat he with him brought
                                
                                  Er he com þere to bigyle him he þought /
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                                  And so he dede er þay wente atwynne [folio 177b] 
                                
                                  Til he had torned him couþe he nought blynne /
                                
                                  It dulleþ me whan þat I of him speke /
                                
                                  On his falshede fayn wold I me wreke /
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                                  If I wist how but he is heer and þere
                                
                                  he is so variant he byt no where /
                                
                                  But takeþ heed now sires for goddes loue
                                
                                  He took his cole of which I spak aboue /
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                                  And in his hond he bar it priuely
                                
                                  And whiles þe preste couched bysily

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 405
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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